Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Discharged Home from an Emergency Department with AKI.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Patients discharged home from an emergency department with AKI are not well described. This study describes their characteristics and outcomes and compares these outcomes to two referent groups.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada from 2003 to 2012 of 6346 patients aged ≥40 years who were discharged from the emergency department with AKI (defined using serum creatinine values). We analyzed the risk of all-cause mortality, receipt of acute dialysis, and hospitalization within 30 days after discharge. We used propensity score methods to compare all-cause mortality to two referent groups. We matched 4379 discharged patients to 4379 patients who were hospitalized fro

SUBMITTER: Acedillo RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5544515 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature